There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

Orson Scott Card

Have you seen but a bright lily grow,Before rude hands have touched it?Have you marked but the fall o' the snowBefore the soil hath smutched it?...O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!

Ben Johnson, Celebration of Char

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

Karl Lagerfeld

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

William Hazlitt

Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.

Stephen King

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Albert Einstein

love has a very dulling effect on the brain

Elizabeth Peters

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Madame de Maintenon

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

Thomas Szasz

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

T. S. Eliot

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

George Soros

He wants to enslave you.''I shudder at the thought of being free.

Oscar Wilde